The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed.
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- The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed.
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- Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
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"The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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IT is to be feared sometyme, least that many archers dry∣uing the defenders downe, maye sodenlye take the wall. Therefore it shall bee good to haue in the citie complette harnis and store of shieldes. Moreouer, mantils, clokes, and heareclothes, maye bee hanged before them, and so receyue the shotte of arrowes: for the heades of the arrowes cannot easelye pearse throughe that whiche yeldeth and waueth to and fro. There is also a remedy founde: to make hurdles of woode, called Metellae, and to fille them with stones, and to set them betwene twoo battlementes so cunningly, that if the ennemies should clyme vp by ladders and touche anye parte of them, the stones may turne vpon their heades.